in hock
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English[edit]
Prepositional phrase[edit]
- Having been pawned.
- Her necklace is in hock in order to cover some family expenses.
- (figurative, by extension, transitive with to) Indebted.
- 2022 June 5, Ezra Klein, “Your Kids Are Not Doomed”, in The New York Times[1]:
- The wind doesn’t stop blowing because an autocrat has a tantrum; harnessing the solar radiation that bathes our world doesn’t leave us in hock to the House of Saud.